On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Jose Mario Quintana <josemarioquint...@2bestsystems.com> wrote: > Should or should not, in principle, the dictionary be a > clear and unambiguous reference source for the core > language? In any case, where is (or was) the level of > redundancy regarding the fork’s order-of-execution?
In the case of the recent example (the "verb phrase" thing), the dictionary provided a clear and unambiguous description of the parsing rules -- just not in the sentence in question. In the case of fork, in other languages when the specification leaves something unaddressed, the handling of that issue is up to the implementation. But J has always had a canonical "most recent version", and "implementation dependent but people only use one version" behavior can be relied on without having to be a part of the standard. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
